Dr. Charles Griffith seated at the organ in Spencer Chapel. Dr. Griffith was a 1921 graduate and worked at Penn College as a student and a faculty member from 1917 to 1969.
Charles S. Ball served as president of William Penn College from 1949-1958. He had an advanced degree in theology and was the former president of Friends Bible College in Haviland, Kansas.
Spanish Influenza ravaged the state of Iowa starting in the fall of 1918. This inevitably led to a statewide quarantine in October of 1918. Penn College closed from October 14, 1918 to November 4, 1918. On November 21, 1918, President McGrew ordered…
Under a palm tree in 1910. William Clayton, Rebecca Hinchman Smith, Ada Johnson Williams, A. Clifford Johnson, Silas Lucas, Jesse Marshall, Ana Phelps, Margaret Ross, Mary Ross.
Picture taken May 191888 of the Penn College class of 1890 including Lawrence Byers, Chalmers Chawner, Oliver Dixon, Mae Evans, Frank Green, H. Etta McCarroll, Martha Marshall, Charles Michener, Alvah Negus, Lucie Shumate and Cyrus White.
